In the Market: An Illustrated World History of the Financial Markets

by Christopher Finch

Book Overview

The impact of capital markets on every aspect of business and daily life at the dawn of the 21st century - and how those markets have evolved since antiquity - is explored in this illustrated volume.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789200147
• ISBN13: 9780789200143
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 5.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 10.3" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Concise but a Big Book

This book covers the market in the broadest, widest sense. The authors have collected illustrations on every conceivable market from camel caravans crossing the Sahara to the latest scenes on Wall Street. You don't think of a coffee table picture book as having the world's financial markets as a suitable subject, but that's what this is. The book goes back a few thousand years and covers the basic development of trade that began in the fertile cresent. Major epochs since then are given chapters. These include the depression, the wars, OPEC and so on. As big as the book is, 350 pages, 10 x 12 inches and six pounds in weight, I'm reluctant to use the term 'concise history.' But's that's really what it is. The book, both because of its illustrations and it writing is very good, it's enjoyable reading, much better than what you would expect to find in the usual coffee table book.